WBTV partnered with the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency to help people who are struggling to make payments on their homes because of lost jobs or personal hardships. According to CoreLogic, While the number of foreclosures in NC is declining, there were still 15,000 completed home foreclosures in the state in 2015.
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Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in August, as a shortage of properties for sale is weighing on the market. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index fell 2.4 percent last month to 108.5, its lowest reading since January.
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Gaston County commissioners on Tuesday voted to put an overlay for the Garden Parkway back on their tax department's official GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, website. The mapping tool is used by the public to access a variety of information about real estate, zoning and planning.
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Appeal by plaintiff and cross-appeal by defendant from order entered 21 August 2014 by Judge Hugh B. Lewis in Superior Court, Mecklenburg County. Heard in the Court of Appeals 4 November 2015.
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Regional Headlines

How an email about a lost handkerchief spawned a bogus story about a pedophilia ring in a pizza joint basement On day 3 of taking Pizzagate seriously, we now know more about how the fake news gem garnered enough traction to convince gunman Edgar Maddison Welch to enter Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant, Comet Ping Pong, to "self-investigate" the conspiracy theory that proved to be untrue. An oddly disproportionate share of the tweets about Pizzagate appear to have come from, of all places, the Czech Republic, Cyprus and Vietnam, said Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of media analytics at Elon University in North Carolina.
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Trump is slated to hold the second stop of this "thank you" tour Tuesday in North Carolina, less than a week after his bombastic return to rallies at an Ohio appearance that felt more like a raucous campaign stop than a traditional speech by a president-to-be.
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During that visit to Cincinnati, Mr Trump disparaged the media as "dishonest", inspired loud "Build the wall" chants, took swipes at fellow Republicans and stunned his own aides with his surprise announcement from the stage that that he was appointing retired General James Mattis as his defence secretary. Tuesday's appearance in Fayetteville will be followed by rallies in Iowa and Michigan later this week as Mr Trump barnstorms the country to salute his supporters who delivered the victories in the battleground states he needed to capture the White House.
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There is nothing like a little local crime to make you feel old. Sunday's bizarre incident at Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in the District took me back many years to when I was a boy growing up in a house about two short blocks away.
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The Aussie dollar has pushed through 77 US cents and the peso has surged after the FBI cleared Hillary Clinton , while Westpac releases annuals profits. The FBI has again intervened in the US election, this time by clearing Clinton for a second time over her use of official emails.
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National Headlines

U.S. stocks rose for the sixth day in a row Friday as major indexes continued to set records. The biggest gains went to companies that have been mostly left out of the post-election rally, including health care companies and makers of household goods.
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August's flood has thrown the tax schedule off kilter, and property owners could face a more confusing process to square their government dues during the approaching tax filing season. After the federal disaster was declared, local tax assessors were required to recheck the value of property in flooded parishes.
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The charred remains of the home where five-year-old Quinn Butt died on April 24, 2016, is seen in this December 9, 2016, handout photo. Trent Spencer Butt faces charges of first degree murder and arson.
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Single mom, Cheryl Alexander, lived with her four children in a small house in Jacob's Hill, Wallerfield blocked around with plywood and galvanise sheets. She bought puzzles and other toys for the children and thought they would sit on the floor and play with them.
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Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB' rating to the following bonds expected to be issued on behalf of Miami Jewish Health System, Inc. : The bonds are secured by a pledge of gross revenues and a mortgage on certain property of the obligated group and a debt service reserve fund. WIDE ARRAY OF ELDERLY SERVICES: Miami Jewish provides a unique array of services for the elderly, drawing from a fairly geographically limited service area in Miami-Dade County.
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